Rachel Held Evans was a progressive Christian writer who embodied vulnerability by dismantling her toxic evangelical ideas and then reassembling her faith in front of all of us. She listened to Jesus. She let herself be moved.

As we’ve discussed, lemon cake recipes are perfect for a holiday table, especially the Easter holiday. I don’t know why. They JUST ARE.

Here are my VERY FAVORITE LEMON CAKE RECIPES that I think should be on your Easter table this Sunday! As a bonus, I’ve also included a few other lemon dessert recipes that I love and that would be perfect for a special occasion.

Don’t worry: these recipes are pretty, but they’re also easy, quick, and absolutely delicious. Lemon lovers in your life are gonna love you!

Sometimes as a teacher you have these moments where your students transcend. They go up the stairs you’ve built but they don’t just reach the top: they’re suddenly flying, they’ve made their own wings, they’re higher than you knew they could go.

OKAY THIS IS OFFICIALLY THE BUSIEST WEEK OF MY LIFE BUT I’M STILL DROPPING IN TO THROW SOME COOKIES AND CREAM PUDDING MIX COOKIES AT YOU BECAUSE THAT’S JUST THE KIND OF BENEVOLENT PERSON I AM. Seriously I can barely breathe right now but HERE ARE SOME COOKIES YOU’RE WELCOME.

Okay soooo how can we get a WEDDING CAKE up in here without having to go to a wedding? NO OFFENSE, I’M SURE YOUR WEDDING WAS FUN, it was probably one of those with a cupcake buffet or a donut wall or a photo booth with good props or a dog as the flower girl. I’M SURE IT WAS GREAT.

Here we go again. A few folks on Twitter this week decided to gain some retweet capital by trotting out the familiar, “These food bloggers and the interminable STORIES before the RECIPE, am I right?! Just gimme the ingredients already” snark.

There are a lot of reasons this attitude is problematic: we spend countless hours creating recipes and can offer them to you for free precisely because our posts are long enough to include ads that pay our rent. These people are basically saying scrolling is too much payment in exchange for our labor. That’s pretty offensive.

Go tell your kids right now that you love them the way God made them. That if they’re gay, if they’re nonbinary, if they’re transgender, if they’re bisexual, if they’re straight, if they dislike pickles — that you LOVE THEM that exact way, and that you want to know them for who they are whenever they figure that out.

If they’re not too young to know about boys and girls, they’re not too young to know about other genders. If they’re not too young to know about love stories between men and women, they’re not too young to know about queer love. Don’t make excuses about them being too young to understand what you’re saying; go talk to them. Raise them to know that you love them, whoever they are.

Okay, you’re gonna do TWO THINGS. I’m keeping it simple for you because I know you’re like me and when you have 85 things to do, you sit and eat olives out of the jar while binge watching Hoarders. So there are only TWO THINGS for you to do.

Every now and then a kid drops a pencil box. Unlike dropping just about anything else in class, dropping a pencil box causes A Moment.

Everyone holds their breath. Everyone briefly evaluates the force of the fall — did it tip off, or was it knocked off? Everyone waits for impact and the subsequent, smaller impacts to evaluate the level of chaos that will ensue.